Labor Economics and Industrial Relations: Markets and Institutions

by Paul Staudohar

In twenty-three original essays this book reviews the course of labor economics over the more than two centuries since the publication of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations. It fully examines the contending theories, changing environmental contexts, evolving issues, and varied policies affecting labor's participation in the economy.

While the intellectual framework of the book looks partly to the past--explaining the labor factor in classical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674011406
• ISBN13: 9780674011403
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Harvard University Wertheim Publications Comm
• Length: 768 Pages
• Weight: 2.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 8.8"